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Antarctic ice melts to January record low

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced Thursday. It's the smallest January area since records began in 1978.

But global warming is reshaping the world' s largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought, according to recent research. Continued global warming will accelerate thawing of the ice sheet and contribute to rising sea levels worldwide, scientists have found.

Continued global warming will accelerate thawing of the ice sheet and contribute to rising sea levels worldwide, scientists have found. Despite the new challenges brought by the changing climate, Greenland ' s residents are known for their resilience.

A young girl plays on a trampoline in the evening sunshine in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

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(Reuters) - Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 people.

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But global warming is reshaping the world' s largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought As scientists study the threats posed by a warming climate, some of the immediate effects of climate change have been a double-edged sword for some in and around Tasiilaq.

But global warming is reshaping the world’ s largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought, according to recent research. Continued global warming will accelerate thawing of the ice sheet and contribute to rising sea levels worldwide, scientists have found.

Colorful wooden houses dot the sub-Arctic landscape battered by one of the harshest climates on the planet.

But global warming is reshaping the world's largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought, according to recent research.

As scientists study the threats posed by a warming climate, some of the immediate effects of climate change have been a double-edged sword for some in and around Tasiilaq.

Julius Nielsen, 40, who lives about 45 km (28 miles) from Tasiilaq, has been hunting and fishing in the area most of his life.

"There's no snow, it's too hot and the water is not freezing," said Nielsen. A thin, frail ice sheet - or lack of ice - pose a big problem for locals like Nielsen who are not able to go hunting with their sled dogs, or have to take alternate routes.

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But global warming is reshaping the world’ s largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought, according to recent research. Continued global warming will accelerate thawing of the ice sheet and contribute to rising sea levels worldwide, scientists have found.

Global warming is reshaping Greenland . Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 people. In pic: Seal hunter Henrik Josvasson jumps back onto his boat after searching for puffin eggs near the town of

Continued global warming will accelerate thawing of the ice sheet and contribute to rising sea levels worldwide, scientists have found.

A United Nations report released in October urged nations to limit the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels in order to minimize global sea level rise, reduce flooding and the overall impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. This would require global net carbon dioxide emissions to fall by about 45 percent by 2030 from 2010 levels.

Nielsen said that, over the last 10 years, it has become increasingly hard to reach usual hunting grounds with sled dogs due to unpredictable weather, thinning ice or no ice at all.

"Every year we see the glaciers, the landscape, the ice sheet melting and melting," he said. "What we know from our ancestors is almost gone and we cannot take it back. We have to find new tools."

Antarctica ice loss increases six fold since 1979: study

Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about six times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle)
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But global warming is reshaping the world's largest island, causing the ice sheet to melt at a faster rate than previously thought, according to recent research. Despite the new challenges brought by the changing climate, Greenland ' s residents are known for their resilience.

Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to global sea level rise — double that of Antarctica — making the island And surface melt on Greenland ’ s ice sheet has been accelerating, spurred by soaring temperatures in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

Lars Anker Moeller used to be able to take tourists out on his signature five-day sled dog ride every year when he started working at tour operator Arctic-Dream over a decade ago.

Now, Moeller often has to take his clients on alternate routes because of the lack of ice.

But there is a silver lining.

Ice retreating earlier in the year is freeing access to areas that were previously locked away for longer, and it has allowed Moeller to kick off boat tours for tourists much earlier in the summer season, said the 45-year-old Dane.

"Instead of having three months, we can go (on boats) four months or five months," Moeller.

In addition, fish such as mackerel, usually not found in the icy seawater of Greenland, are now abundant - a boon for the local fishing industry, Moeller and Nielsen said.

Moeller also cited another temporary advantage climate change has brought to his tourism business: People want to see the ice cap before it is too late.

"Go and see the glaciers before they disappear. That's the thing you hear again and again," Moeller said.

A first-of-its-kind survey conducted in December by the University of Copenhagen, the University of Greenland and Kraks Fond Institute for Urban Economic Research sought to paint a picture of how Greenlandic residents view climate change.

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Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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The study found that over four in 10 residents believe climate change will harm them, while just one in 10 think they will benefit from it.

"Our results indicate that climate change is personally relevant to most people living here and something which the majority of residents are already experiencing now," Kelton Minor, one of the survey's authors, told Reuters in a phone interview from Nuuk.

For many in Greenland, it is a daily reality.

"About eight in 10 residents say that they have directly experienced climate change, over 60 percent think that it's extremely important or very important to them personally... and slightly less than half the population think that climate change will harm them," Minor said.

Despite the new challenges brought by the changing climate, Greenland's residents are known for their resilience.

"The beauty is that Greenlanders have always been good at adapting, so they will survive anyway, whatever will happen," Moeller said.

US carbon emissions rise sharply in 2018.
After three years of decline climate change causing carbon dioxide emissions rose sharply in the US last year according to new research. Carbon emissions increased by 3.4% in 2018 marking the second largest annual gain in more than two decades, according to preliminary power generation data analyzed by the Rhodium Group, an independent economic policy research provider. This follows a Global Carbon Project report in December that said global carbon emissions were estimated to rise by 2.7% for all 2018. The new research indicated that US power sector emissions as a whole rose by 1.9%.

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